Bluegrass Romance

In my early twenties, one month before my short-lived career as a flight attendant, I flew to Italy to spend two weeks monastery hopping– kinda like hostel hopping, or bar hopping, but not really. Actually, not at all like hostel hopping or bar hopping. Those two activities being very rowdy and social in nature, monastery [...]

Call me crazy, but I’ve started another project. Today I launched a new blog that is all about falling in love with life. The Bluegrass Romance project is what inspired it. The experience of seeking out romance and adventure weekly has sparked in me a desire to share with others how they can do it [...]

There comes a time in every woman’s life when she must decide: dance solo or don’t dance at all. I took a salsa lesson once in college. The opportunity arose one night when I had just the right amount of Margarittas. I danced for two hours with sweaty strangers and had a blast. I’ve been [...]

Is it strange that one of the most alive places in the city is a cemetery? By alive, I mean alive with Spring, of course. Tulips and daffodils are in full bloom at the moment and I hear we only get a window of a few weeks to enjoy them. So get out if you [...]

I don’t memorize too many prayers. I try to keep holy dialogues flowing, conversational, unencumbered by someone else’s words. But Saint Teresa di Avila has a prayer that is too good not to repeat. In fact, I repeat the whole thing* daily, and one of it’s lines has become a personal mantra for me. That [...]

Admittedly, Bikram Yoga is more L.A. than Bluegrass. Kentucky is known for three things and yoga, of any kind, isn’t one of them.  Basketball, bourbon or horses maybe on the minds of Lexingtonians, but not Bikram. It is, however, something that has been on my to try list for awhile. What is great about this [...]

In seeking to live life with more romance and adventure,  not every mini-mission has to lead far from home, or even far from the bedroom for that matter. Last week’s family “safari” at the Wildwood Inn won’t soon be forgotten, but this week’s journey is about  finding simple pleasures in our own town, and our [...]